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The Oregon Department of Forestry has canceled two timber sales to postpone proceedings in an environmental lawsuit, which the timber industry considers a troubling development.
In 2018, several environmental groups filed a complaint accusing the ODF of violating the Endangered Species Act by allowing sediments from logging to harm protected coho salmon.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic and other reasons, the agency obtained a stay of the lawsuit in April that suspended the legal proceedings.
The litigation was further delayed after devastating wildfires burned more than 1 million acres of forestland in late summer.
The Center for Biological Diversity and two other environmental plaintiffs have now agreed to again delay the lawsuit until July 15, 2021, in exchange for ODF scrapping two timber sales totaling more than 440 acres in the Tillamook State Forest.